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Why is it incorrect to say, nosotros somos cerca del cafe? Is it because nosotros was included? I thought that including the subject of the sentence was sometimes optional to write, but not wrong. What am i missing here? Gracias.

Nothing, because there are some grammatical errors in this sentence.
1:) "cafe" is masculine in Spanish: "el cafe", not "la cafe"
2.) the word "cerca" always goes with "de", not "a"
3.) in Spanish there are two verbs for to be. One of those ("ser" --> "somos") is used for fixed characteristics that usually don't change rapidly (like nationalities, the colour of your eyes, ...), the other one ("estar" --> "estamos") is used for circumstances that change more often, such as e.g. localities. So you can't use "somos" here.

You may or may not leave out the "nosotros" in the beginning of the sentence.